The Black Country Living Museum in Dudley has opened the final phase of its £10m upgrade.

The Oldbury Buildings, which opened on Friday (16 July), were the last piece in the museum's Streets Ahead project - the largest in its 34-year history.

Built with a £132,550 grant from The Veolia Environmental Trust, awarded through the Landfill Communities Fund, The Oldbury Buildings - part of the museum's 1930s-era High Street - have been reconstructed from numbers 12, 14, 16 and 18 Birmingham Road in Oldbury.

The trust’s grant was matched by contributions from the British Motorcycle Charitable Trust, Charles Hayward Foundation, Douglas Turner Trust, Garfield Weston Foundation, The Patrick Trust and The Owen Family Trust, as well the museum’s own funds in order to bring to life a builders and plumbers merchant, a motorcycle dealers, a tobacconist and a radio store.

The executive director of The Veolia Environmental Trust, Margaret Cobbold, said: “The reconstruction of The Oldbury Buildings is an excellent example of how Landfill Communities Fund can help preserve our heritage, and bring it to life, for future generations. It’s great to see this exciting and important project being opened.”

Andrew Lovett, director and chief executive of the Black Country Living Museum, added: “The Black Country Living Museum has an international reputation for the preservation of buildings and for authentically rebuilding them at the museum. The generous contributions made by our donors have allowed us to accurately reconstruct another fascinating part of Black Country history.”